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Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacO
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Liam Groener |
Subject: |
Re: Testers needed for an Octave-3.6.1 app (X86_64 only) bundle for MacOS |
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Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:59:22 -0800 |
On Mar 2, 2012, at 4:43 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mar 1, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>>
>>> I've put together a *large* X86_64 app bundle for MacOS X. The DMG is about
>>> 300MB, and will expand to almost 1GB.
>>>
>>> Its runs on MacOS 10.7 (Lion) on an i7 based Macbook Pro. It may only run
>>> on an i7 processor ... and/or only on MacOS 10.7.
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested in giving it a test-drive, I've started an upload
>>> to my DropBox. The public link is below.
>>>
>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14845154/Octave-3.6.1.app.dmg
>>>
>>> If you give it a try, please let me know if it runs, if plotting works,
>>> your Mac's processor, and the MacOS version your Mac runs. These last two
>>> bits of info are available from "About This Mac".
>>
>> I installed it on both my MacBook Air (core 2 duo) and my iMac (i7), both
>> running OS X 10.7.3. Ran a simple plot (plot(1:10)) on each with both
>> gnuplot and fltk. All worked as expected. I'll let you know if any problems
>> pop up latter. Let me know if you want me to test anything specific.
>>
>> Liam G.
>
> Thanks Liam.
>
> I had tried on Core 2 duo running Snow Leopard, but it failed. That box also
> has Fink installed, while the app is built via MacPorts.
>
> Do you have Fink or MacPorts (other pkg manager?) installed?
Yes, I have both on both machines, but only use macports now days.